Eddie Stubbs

Who is Eddie Stubbs?

Eddie Stubbs is a radio disc jockey broadcasting old-style country music on WSM, a radio station with a nighttime clear channel signal broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee. He is also one of two regular announcers for the long-running Grand Ole Opry carried on WSM on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights.

He is on the air weekday evenings from 7 PM to midnight, Central Time, on WSM. WSM's powerful nighttime clear channel signal allows WSM to be heard in a large part of the US and Canada. As a result, Eddie has many regular listeners in all parts of the US and Canada in areas far away from Nashville.

A fifth-generation resident of Montgomery County, Maryland, he graduated from Gaithersburg High School and became a fiddle player with traditional bluegrass band The Johnson Mountain Boys. After a decade, the band split up and Stubbs only played sporadically after that.

Stubbs' first radio job was a weekly bluegrass show for WYII in Williamsport, Maryland in 1983 where he earned $20 per program. In 1984 he was hired by WAMU in Washington, D.C. and worked alongside veteran country deejay Gary Henderson. He received his own show in 1990 but continued to do odd-jobs such as house-painting to supplement his income. "No one gets rich in radio," he observed. The Eddie Stubbs Show on WAMU was discontinued in April 2007.